Notepad formatting question

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Edw. Peach

Since Notepad is packed in Windows XP, I thought this might be a place
where I could get a question answered. I use Notepad quite a bit for
writing text, some longer texts that I copy/paste into email programs.
I notice something really odd when I'm using Notepad...it seems to
format my text. For instance, I write in single-spacing and when I
paste the txt into an email or a word processing program, it appears
double spaced, and the settings on the programs say it is single.
Also, I notice that wherever my sentence ends, that's exactly how it
pastes. I have WORD WRAP on in NotePad.

Any suggestions on this?
 
Which e-mail program? I've just pasted text from notepad into
Thunderbird, Outlook, Squirrelmail and the google editor, and I get the
same spacing that I use in notepad. (I'm using WindowsXP.)

The only thing I can think of is that there's an incompatibility
between notepad's end-of-line delimiter and that of the e-mail program
you're using. To explain: notepad, being a Window's program, uses the
Windows-supported eol delimiter, namely CR/LF. (These are two ascii
characters--CR == #13 carriage return, NL == #10 line feed.) Most
other computers use only one character to represent an eol, either CR
*or* LF, not both. Thus, sometimes programs designed for other systems
think that a Windows document eol represents *two* eols instead of one.

This is just a guess, though. By the by, you're using *notepad*, and
not *wordpad*, aren't you?

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Edw. Peach said:
Since Notepad is packed in Windows XP, I thought this might be a place
where I could get a question answered. I use Notepad quite a bit for
writing text, some longer texts that I copy/paste into email programs.
I notice something really odd when I'm using Notepad...it seems to
format my text. For instance, I write in single-spacing and when I
paste the txt into an email or a word processing program, it appears
double spaced, and the settings on the programs say it is single.
Also, I notice that wherever my sentence ends, that's exactly how it
pastes. I have WORD WRAP on in NotePad.

Any suggestions on this?
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This message was typed and pasted into Outlook Express.
I don't see what you say, so it is probably a problem with the program(s)
you are pasting the text into.

WordWrap was turned on. What email program are you using?

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I am using Notepad, not WordPad. I have this same problem pasting
into word processing programs. I wonder...I had forgotten that I d/l
a different text editor some time ago, called NoteTabLight. I bet
that's the culprit. I have a shareware music writing program and
sometimes those files are changed into a NoteTabLight file. I thought
it was the music writing program's fault because it's buggy as Nature.
 
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